Event follows successful test sessions in France and South Korea

Kobe, Japan. 15 November 2016: oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it will host its third interoperability event in Kobe, Japan, from Tuesday, November 29 to Friday, December 2, 2016. This event follows the success of its two previous test sessions.
   
Interop 3 – co-organised by the Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea (TTA) and ETSI – will give organisations implementing the oneM2M standard the chance to validate interoperability and check end-to-end functionality on oneM2M interfaces. The third edition of the event will also allow participants to run Conformance Testing to help them further refine their products.

The latest event follows the recent publication of oneM2M’s Release 2 and major oneM2M-based deployments from leading companies, such as NEC, LG and Huawei.

“With the publication of our latest set of specifications, Release 2, and the growth of the IoT continuing at a rapid pace, interoperability is crucial for the industry,” said Fran O’ Brien, oneM2M’s steering committee chairman. “Following the success of our first two events, we hope to see as many attendees at the Kobe event as possible so we can further accelerate IoT deployments that truly add value to users’ daily lives.”

oneM2M specifications which will be tested include oneM2M Release 1 and Release 2 standards TS-0001 (Functional Architecture), TS-0004 (Service Layer Core Protocol), TS-0008 (CoAP Protocol Binding), TS-0009 (HTTP Protocol Binding) and TS-0010 (MQTT Protocol Binding).

For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.etsi.org/news-events/events/1117-onem2m-interop-3. oneM2M Interop 3 attendees will be covered by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

HyperCloud helps enterprises accelerate from building IT to consuming IT

London – November 15, 2016 HyperGrid, the only application delivery platform that solves the key challenges of DevOps for enterprises, today announced the immediate availability of HyperCloud. HyperCloud is a hybrid cloud service that offers application, platform and infrastructure services to accelerate transformation and delivery of business applications that drive innovation and competitive advantage. HyperCloud provides a full scale-out application platform to your datacentre as a service, delivering true cloud agility and economics inside your own datacentre.

HyperCloud’s Key Capabilities
Modernise existing legacy applications without making a single code change and using the existing skill sets within your organisation. The on-the-fly containerisation capabilities allow users to “lift and shift” existing Java and .NET applications to containers while taking care of the complex application dependencies, automatic service discovery, auto-scaling and integration with any external service (e.g., storage, networking, logging, etc.).

Deploy applications to the best fit environment, whether it’s on premises on HyperCloud’s scale-out infrastructure with fully integrated, programmable network fabric and flash-optimised software defined storage, on a managed HyperCloud, or on one of the eighteen public clouds or virtualisation platforms supported.

Eliminate cloud lock-in through seamless workload migration across environments; including physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to virtual (V2V) and Lift, Containerize and Shift (LCS) migration services.

HyperCloud helps enterprises evolve from building IT to consuming IT, while maintaining controls and reducing costs. It fundamentally changes how our customers consume IT with its no CapEx (pay-as-you-go) model. We manage and automate day-to-day tasks for organisations of all sizes. There is no equipment to buy, no software to install. Customers get all of the benefits of public cloud while maintaining security and control.

Benefits
Accelerate Innovation
Drive business innovation by transforming existing applications and bringing new applications to market faster with rapid scaling and no upfront cost.

Simplify IT
Simplify and increase IT efficiency, on premises and in the cloud, while maintaining IT control. Automate the self-service provisioning and management of application, platform, containers and infrastructure services on HyperCloud’s high-performance, secure, scale-out infrastructure or on any of the eighteen public clouds and virtualisation platforms supported.

Reduce Costs
Experience the benefits of consumption economics through a true utility model.

• Total cost of ownership for running applications goes down significantly with less management effort needed. Companies can focus on higher value activities.
• No upfront CapEx payments; companies pay only for what they use.
• Reduced risk. Simple, free switching and technology stack upgrade. Start with no out-of-pocket cost by signing up for HyperGrid’s SaaS offering or deploy on-premises with an industry-leading infrastructure.

Supporting Quotes
“We are the world’s only IT utility company; our vision for HyperCloud is to consume IT, not build IT. With our release of HyperCloud, we build on our value proposition of delivering IT as a utility on-premises with no upfront CapEx, enabling our customers to innovate and reduce cost and complexity. HyperGrid has experienced 343% YoY growth with its as-a-service model since the July launch of the company, and with these new capabilities, I am confident we will continue to add momentum to disrupting the traditional infrastructure and cloud market.” Nariman Teymourian, Chairman and CEO, HyperGrid, Inc.

“HyperCloud delivers on HyperGrid’s vision - delivering applications in a true “as-a-service” model. We believe this is truly innovative for the industry and exactly what customers and partners have been wanting to see for several years now. The end-to-end stack offered with HyperCloud eliminates the need for “piece parts” IT purchasing and provides an application-centric approach for management, instead of a VM-centric approach provided by traditional IaaS and infrastructure providers.”
Manoj Nair, Chief Product Officer, HyperGrid, Inc.

“HyperCloud offers seamless deployment, rapid time-to-value and helps our customers focus on managing their applications and get public cloud-like benefits in their datacenter. This fundamentally changes how we and our customers consume IT with its no CapEx (pay-as-you-go) model.”
Sabur Mian, VP Technology, CANCOM HPM Networks

“Datacentre architectures are going through a radical transformation brought on by enterprise workloads transitioning to the cloud. Without transformation, IT professionals will struggle to gain the competitive benefits and differentiation that cloud and hybrid-based architectures can deliver.”
Paul DeLory, Research Director, Data Center Infrastructure, Gartner (Gartner’s 2017 Planning Guide for Data Center Modernization and Infrastructure Agility)

RiddleBox Launch Pulse Plus - an Innovative Business Performance Measurement Tool

Pulse Plus is Unique - the First ‘Plug & Play’ Online Business Performance Measurement Tool

RiddleBox, long established thought leaders and innovators announce the launch of Pulse Plus, the first ‘plug and play’ business management performance assessment and measurement tool.

“This has been eight years in development,” says RiddleBox co-founder Dr Ram Raghvan. “One of our clients, in an attempt to describe Pulse Plus, suggested that it was a ‘three dimensional Myers Briggs’, but that really doesn’t begin to do it justice. A better analogy would be the car servicing diagnostic tool – you effectively plug your business into Pulse Plus, run the process and then analyse the results. Our short introductory video describes it well.”

Pulse Plus is breaking new ground in the field of business performance assessment by combining the interlocking disciplines of

• Psychology – with the Business Persona updated profiling which, unlike others, recognises and accommodates the impact of outside influences on individual behaviour and
• Neuroscience - Riddlebox’s patented Experience Score methodology, which is equally applicable to Employees and Customers

As Jeremy Moore, Riddlebox’s other co-founder explains, “Put simply, if the brain were a computer, psychology would be concerned with the software and neuroscience the hardware. And like a computer they are interdependent.”

“Creating a powerful and positive employee experience is the single most influential factor in achieving outstanding organisation performance and ultimately competitive advantage. Until now, there was no way of objectively measuring experience, despite its importance. I know from my time coaching the GB Rowing squad how maximum performance could only be guaranteed if my rowers’ heads were in the right place emotionally. It’s the same in business, but if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Well you can now.”

Regular monitoring through the RiddleBox Pulse process sustains and builds on and enhances performance – hence Pulse Plus.

Both Ram and Jeremy agree that Pulse Plus, although revolutionary in concept, is evolutionary in application. “We’re dealing with a business’s most precious assets – its people, so progress is achieved by gaining agreement and persuasion.”

“Actually, in reality, it’s not that difficult,” claims Ram, “If the objective is to enhance an employee’s work experience because it will make the business more successful, it’s the ultimate Win – Win.”

Newtec Dialog® at the core of SENTECH’s new 800 sites multiservice platform in South Africa

GAUTENG, JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, and SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 15 November 2016. Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, today announced that state-owned broadcasting signal distributor SENTECH has selected the Newtec Dialog® multiservice platform including the MDM2500 IP Satellite Modem for 800 of its sites across South Africa.

The partnership was enabled through African Union Communications (AUCom) – a long-term, certified Newtec business partner, which is the primary contractor for this SENTECH project.

The Newtec Dialog multiservice platform will provide SENTECH with capabilities for Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) signal monitoring, IP multicasting, radio backhaul, Point of Sale (PoS) support and government disaster recovery connectivity. The migration from the current platform to Newtec Dialog will begin in November and will use standard Ku-band capacity.

“As the broadcast industry evolves, it is important for us to be able to meet not only our present needs, but our future ones as well,” said Dumisa Ngwenya, CTO at SENTECH. “One of the main factors was Newtec Dialog’s capacity for scalable growth, allowing us to target an increasing number of services within the same platform as our future requirements change and grow.”

As a multiservice platform, Newtec Dialog enables tailored services and guarantees optimal modulation, bandwidth allocation, service availability, reliable automation of link set-ups and flexible workflow support, whether it is being used to provide broadcast, consumer broadband, cellular backhaul or mobility services. It also features Newtec’s award-winning return link technology Mx-DMA®, which delivers the efficiency of SCPC with the dynamic bandwidth allocation of MF-TDMA.

“Together with our partner AUCom, we have been able to provide SENTECH with a solution that matches its needs both now and in the future,” said Pieter-Paul Mooijman, Regional Sales Director Africa at Newtec. “SENTECH has been a Newtec customer for many years now and we are delighted that our strong track record of reliability, customer support and cost-effectiveness has enabled us to extend this relationship further.”

AUCom and Newtec will be present at AfricaCom 2016 in CapeTown. For further information and to book a meeting visit: www.newtec.eu/event/africacom-2016.

Named Best Cloud Innovation, Best Strategic Acquisition and Best Wholesale Sales Team

London, 15 November, 2016 - Interoute, owner operator of one of Europe's largest most advanced networks and global cloud services platform, has been awarded for Best Cloud Innovation, Best Strategic Acquisition and Best Wholesale Sales Team in this year’s Capacity Global Carrier Awards.

Interoute accepted the awards at a ceremony in Paris on the 8th November. It was selected by a panel of leading analysts, industry experts and Capacity’s senior editorial team. Reflecting on the decision, the judging panel said that Interoute was “a consistent performer in its region, year in, year out.”

The company was acknowledged for its work supporting UEFA’s ICT infrastructure, hosting the business services needed to run some of the world’s most high profile football competitions. It was also commended for its acquisition of Easynet, the European managed services provider, to grow Interoute’s ICT services business and expand its market leading cloud capability in Europe and the UK.

Furthermore, the wholesale sales team was championed for driving Interoute’s proposition from an ambitious project to the owner operator of one of Europe’s largest networks, providing customers with access to 17 Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zones to deploy in cities across Europe, the US and Asia.

“The Capacity Global Carrier Awards have become the most prestigious event in the wholesale telecoms calendar, setting the benchmark for customer excellence in our industry. We are delighted to see our strategic vision, commitment to innovation and the strength of our wholesale team acknowledged in this way." said Gareth Williams, CEO of Interoute.

Canali Collaborates with Cornerstone OnDemand to Implement Tailor-Made Talent Management Solution for its Global Workforce

Italian luxury men’s fashion house modernises its talent initiatives to better recruit, develop and manage its people

SANTA MONICA, Calif. and MILAN, Italy - Nov. 15, 2016 - Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ:CSOD), a global leader in cloud-based human capital management software, today announced that Canali, an Italian luxury menswear brand, is implementing Cornerstone’s unified talent management suite to better recruit, develop and manage its people. Cornerstone will provide Canali with advanced technology for designing a tailor-made talent management solution with the same care and detail that goes into the elegant suits and luxury menswear for which they are known.

Canali was founded in 1934 with a creative vision for men’s haute couture that few have been able to rival. Employing state-of-the-art production techniques, highly specialised personnel and only the best quality textiles, Canali’s unmatched design and thoughtful craftsmanship have made it a favoured brand across the globe. Canali employs today nearly 1,800 people across Europe, the United States, Hong Kong and China.

Canali selected Cornerstone’s software, including solutions for recruiting, learning and development, performance management, and compensation management, to help the organisation manage human resource processes for its highly diverse workforce through a single platform.

Cornerstone’s unified talent management suite enables organisations such as Canali to easily manage every aspect of the employee lifecycle. From finding the right talent, training new hires, and engaging employees with a targeted learning and development experience, to providing continuous performance feedback and rewarding top performers, Cornerstone helps to boost productivity, automate processes and drive bottom-line results.

Comments on the News
“Canali is a company with a strong tradition and identity that wants to protect and project into the future its legacy of expertise. The organisational development processes therefore must be guarded with great care for this purpose. A technology partner like Cornerstone is the right one to support the company in the whole area of people management,” said Matteo Bondavalli, group HR and organisation director for Canali.

“We are honoured to be working alongside Canali, one of the most distinguished and revered luxury men’s fashion brands in the world, to help them implement a unified approach to talent management,” said Vincent Belliveau, executive vice president and general manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Cornerstone OnDemand. “By managing all of their talent management processes in Cornerstone’s unified platform, Canali will be equipped with an innovative, cutting-edge software solution that will provide its workforce with the tools and resources they need to succeed now and in the future.”

Additional Details

• To learn more about Cornerstone’s unified talent management suite, visit cornerstoneondemand.com/products.

Combining content management and translation management into a single solution allows organizations to go global faster

MAIDENHEAD, U.K., and WAKEFIELD, Mass. – November 14, 2016 – SDL (LSE:SDL) today announced two solutions for managing the complete global content lifecycle from creation through translation and delivery. The two revolutionary offerings, SDL Global Digital Experience Solution™ and SDL Global Knowledge Delivery Solution™, combine best-in-class content management and translation management technology. By adopting a single solution, organizations can automatically trigger translation processes, monitor progress, review and publish new content.

With rapid global expansion, today’s companies need optimized processes for creating, managing and localizing content. According to a brand new report commissioned by SDL and Forrester Consulting, 92 percent of companies face challenges as they translate content into different languages and only 29 percent integrate their content management system with a translation management system or language service provider, resulting in sub-par, manual processes. SDL’s new, integrated solutions address these issues and deliver greater efficiency, brand consistency and content quality.

“Content and language are at the heart of customer communication,” said Jasper van de Luijtgaarden, CEO of Building Blocks, part of Dept, an international network of leading, digital agencies. “For our customers, it’s imperative that technology helps them navigate the complexity of managing content and translation processes to reach global audiences and deliver locally relevant experiences. SDL’s approach makes this possible for them, supporting their global growth.”

“After numerous discussions with customers, we realized we have a unique opportunity to help companies go global faster,” said Adolfo Hernandez, CEO, SDL. “By providing a single solution that brings together content management and language management in the cloud, we are able to streamline the content creation-to-delivery lifecycle. With these solutions, marketing and documentation teams can focus more of their time creating content because translation and global distribution are just one click away.”
   
SDL Global Digital Experience Solution™ provides the following web content management and translation management capabilities:

• Create consistent global digital experiences for your brand
• Give web editors full control of what content is displayed across all channels and devices
• Manage and automate translation and review processes in the context of a web page with advanced translation job control, translation review and translation preview
• Apply personalization and targeting to create relevant, personal connections
• Use BluePrinting®, a content dependency model that lets you reuse, adapt, synchronize and localize content

The solution includes a package of two million translated words using advanced machine translation plus a package of human translated words equivalent to eight average local country websites.

As a result, SDL Global Digital Experience Solution™ provides unparalleled process efficiencies and more effective customer communication on a global scale. It speeds up time-to-market for time-critical content and ensures ongoing content quality and consistency.

SDL Global Knowledge Delivery Solution™ provides the following technical content management and translation management capabilities:

• Easy what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) authoring of DITA-based technical content
• Provide authors with direct access to advanced translation capabilities, using both machine and human translation
• Use baselining and advanced versioning for long-term structural integrity of your publications
• Review content collaboratively between content authors and subject matter experts (SMEs)
• Publish content automatically into any destination format

SDL Global Knowledge Delivery Solution™ includes a package of advanced machine translation and human translated words, similar to SDL Global Digital Experience Solution™.

SDL Global Knowledge Delivery Solution™ radically changes how organizations manage technical content on a global scale. It helps them to deliver quality technical documentation and support content anywhere in the world, in any language, on any device much faster than before and at lower cost.

SDL has a long history of providing innovative solutions for organizations dealing with multilingual content. Approximately 70 percent of translators worldwide use SDL technology for their day-to-day translation work and the world’s largest enterprises rely on SDL for translation technology and services. With 1,172 in-country translators across 38 countries, SDL offers the largest number of on-site, full-time linguists in the industry. The company’s translation experts can reflect the characteristics and nuances of different market segments, trends and the specialized requirements of specific verticals. In addition, SDL has 39 patents for machine translation related technologies. All of this expertise and technology is embedded in the new solutions, ensuring that companies gain access to state-of-the-art translation solutions.

To learn more, please visit: www.sdl.com.

Zynstra announces expansion of its global agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Zynstra software integrated into HPE ProLiant Easy Connect ML110 Managed Hybrid Server

Bath, United Kingdom – 14 November 2016. Zynstra, the pioneer in Cloud Managed Servers, announced today that it has extended its relationship with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Zynstra’s virtualisation and cloud management software will now be integrated into HPE’s new ProLiant Easy Connect ML110 Managed Hybrid Server.

The new solution expands the Zynstra and HPE partnership unveiled earlier this year, as well as increasing the market reach of the product, to better serve businesses and educational establishments with larger numbers of IT users. The solution comes pre-integrated with cloud services and powerful cloud management capabilities, combining the benefits of on-premise IT with the scalability and cost benefits of the cloud.

Zynstra and HPE have undertaken extensive cooperative development to deliver a solution that is ideal for small businesses, education and enterprise multisites that have remote offices and branches with up to 150 employees per site. In addition to extending the range of HPE solutions with integrated Zynstra software, the new solution brings additional capabilities to market, including:

• Simplified partner management with ConnectWise and Autotask integration
• Increased business continuity with a high availability option
• Enhanced partner experience with Aruba Central-enabled monitoring of Wi-Fi devices on the ProLiant Easy Connect ML110 management console

“This announcement offers more options to customers, particularly those enterprises with multiple branches of different sizes,” said Nick East, CEO and Founder of Zynstra. “They can now choose the ideal size of solution that best meets their individual branch location needs. In addition, the functional enhancements will enable partners to further enrich the customer experience they deliver.”

“SMBs and companies with remote branches and offices have unique technical requirements, with cost, flexibility and ease of use among their key considerations,” said Tim Peters, Vice President and General Manager, ProLiant Rack Servers, Software and Enterprise Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “The expansion of our ProLiant Easy Connect range through our partnership with Zynstra will enable our customers, and our channel partners that serve them, to grow their business while transforming to a cost-effective and robust hybrid IT infrastructure.”

With a reported 64% increase in internet banking fraud, it is clear a solution is needed to stop criminals deceiving eBanking defences - Assayer is set to do exactly that.

London, UK: 14 November 2016 - CyberRein a leading cyber-security company has today announced the launch of Assayer, a next generation cyber-fraud software. Targeted at banks, Assayer uniquely stops criminals deceiving a bank’s existing defences.

Assayer is set to transform cyber-fraud prevention. Banks existing defences prevent impersonation allowing criminals time to learn how to deceive and plan an attack. Assayer takes away this time, meaning criminals no-longer have months, but milliseconds to plan their attacks. This is ground-breaking and is due to Assayer’s multi-patented Transaction Cloaking technology that constantly mutates and creates impossible puzzles that criminals must solve to be able to deceive defences. Assayer’s mutating deception shields are a step-change for banks because they never protect transactions the same way twice. Therefore, anything criminals do learn instantly becomes useless a split-second later, including how to successfully use stolen credentials and biometrics - or even how to deceive Assayer itself.

“Banks aren’t losing the cyber-fraud battle because their defences are weak, but because criminals have too long to learn how to defeat them, which is why banking has a $100B cyber-fraud problem each year, despite using best-in-class defences. Assayer’s mutating defences eliminate this fundamental vulnerability of time, so criminals can’t learn how to deceive a bank’s defences in the first place,” said Sat Birdi, CEO of CyberRein. “Assayer allows any bank to finally stop cyber-fraud, not because it prevents it through detection, but because its mutating deception shields never protect transactions the same way twice and cloak a bank and its customers in a way that criminals can’t solve. Assayer’s defence technology is very powerful, because it now allows banks to finally prevent the root cause of all cyber-fraud, the knowledge required to succeed - and the implications are profound and far-reaching”.

As well as cloaking the transactions, Assayer does not affect the bank’s current defences and encompasses them into its deception shields, securing all channels and touchpoints against impersonation, the pre-cursor to all successful cyber-fraud. Assayer will protect anything that is placed within its deception shield and instantly means that a bank’s existing cyber-security investments are future-proofed. The bank’s current defences and customers are not aware that they are being protected – there is no interference, downloads and ultimately no successful cyber-fraud.

Sat continued, “We live in a truly compromised world where criminals are always waiting for the next opportunity to defraud banks and their customers. At CyberRein, we can eliminate that threat and headache for eBanking executives, and make banking online safer for everyone. Consumers are increasingly asking their banks to do more to protect them, and through Assayer, we are giving the financial community the chance to do exactly that. The CyberRein team has over 30 years of expertise in cyber-security and enterprise business solutions delivery, making us a very knowledgeable partner to work with. Our research and technology has taken over four years to complete, because we realised that the problem of cyber-fraud prevention needed a whole new approach to bolster banking’s existing defences, and we’re very excited to be leading the way with the development of this new technology.”

IT Management Software Company Ipswitch Expands EMEA Operations to Provide Sales, Channel and Operations Support

November 14, 2016 – Galway. IT and network management software company Ipswitch today announced it has opened a permanent EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) centre of excellence at Citypoint, Galway, Ireland. The permanent office location signifies a substantial investment for the company and supports its EMEA growth strategy. Twelve research and development, sales and technical support team members will initially move in with a plan to increase headcount up to 60 in line with the positions announced in March 2016.

The expanded EMEA core team, based in Galway, will provide local language and local time zone technical and sales support to their in-country partners and customers across Europe. They will also provide central support for the company’s in-country teams across Germany, UK, France, Italy and the Middle East. The centre will host a dedicated partner and customer demonstration suite for sales, which will facilitate events and training.

Ipswitch plans to hire skilled employees from within the local community to facilitate its growth. The company is partnering closely with both the National University of Ireland Galway and Galway Mayo Institute of Technology Business & Computer Science faculties for graduate opportunities.

Michael Hack, SVP of EMEA Operations commented: “In October 2015 we set an aggressive target to double our EMEA business by 2018. We’re on track and seeing double digit growth. Then in March 2016, when we first set up a support and operations centre in Ireland in shared offices where we planned to hire nine people by the end of 2016. Under John McArdle’s leadership, Ipswitch EMEA Channel Director, we’re already well ahead of plan with 12 employees within several functions including R&D, technical support, sales and technical writing roles. We have a further two additional positions approved to hire this year, which will bring the office to 14 employees or 55% higher that our original plan. This fast track growth now means that Ipswitch needs a permanent office space that we can expand into. We plan to create the announced 60 jobs that will be based in the new Galway office over the next five years.

“The opening of our state of the art office in a prime city centre location will allow us to scale to grow the needs of our large client base and attract the talent we need for our business. Having a dedicated senior and technical team in the heart of Europe will have a big impact on the level of support and business development we can offer our partner network and customers across the region, ultimately driving growth.”

The development is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovation through IDA Ireland. The privately owned company which has its headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, employs over 300 people in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Ipswitch software has been installed on more than 150,000 networks in 168 countries, with customers including Hamleys, NHS Wales, Cambridgeshire County Council and Community Integrated Care. Ipswitch already has research and development centres in Germany, Atlanta and Augusta, Georgia, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Ipswitch IT and network management software provides secure control over business transactions, applications and infrastructure. The vendor’s unified infrastructure and applications monitoring software provides end-to-end insight, is staggeringly flexible and simple to deploy. Its information security and managed file transfer solutions enable secure, automated and compliant business transactions and file transfers for millions of users.

Performing the official opening at the company’s new offices this afternoon, the Mayor of Galway, Councillor Noel Larkin, said: “This move by the company to these larger, permanent premises represents a substantial investment and commitment by the company to Galway city and region. I am pleased that the region’s talented local workforce and supportive business environment has helped Ipswitch get off to a strong start here and I wish them every success in the future.”

IDA’s Regional Business Development Manager for the West, Catherina Blewitt, said: “IDA is delighted to see Ipswitch confirm its commitment to Galway with this move to permanent offices, allowing the company to grow its staff up to the full complement of 60 jobs announced in March and allowing scope for further growth. The arrival of this global IT management software company has added considerably to the region’s reputation as a major technology hub. We look forward to supporting the company in its future growth and wish them continued success here.”

More information on the new roles can be obtained here: https://jobs.ipswitch.com or [email protected]

Software development specialist takes top industry award against five other worldwide providers

Future Processing has been named as Service Provider of the Year at the Global Sourcing Association’s (previously known as National Outsourcing Association) 2016 awards.

Based in the heart of Silesia, a hotspot for software development, Future Processing was awarded the award against five other worldwide nominees in recognition of its excellence in the field.

Future Processing has worked alongside a multitude of UK companies to provide services and software that is tailored to the needs of the client. The team’s wide range of expertise provides bespoke software to their clients, acting as an extension to the client’s team.

GSA’s Service Provider of the Year recognises the development of both initial and ongoing business value to clients, continuous service innovation and the demonstrable commitment to the development and future of the industry.

The award was presented to Future Processing at a ceremony at London’s Intercontinental last night to a crowd of 400 attendees.

“I am delighted that Future Processing has been acknowledged with such a prestigious award” said Jaroslaw Czaja, CEO and founder of Future Processing. “It’s brilliant recognition not just for our team, but for Poland as world leader in delivering digital solutions. Our focus is to continue to deliver business value to our clients, because ultimately, it’s the most important element in outsourcing projects. We would like to extend our thanks to our customers and will continue our innovative approach to deliver worldwide IT solutions.”

G.fast takes center stage as Broadband Forum takes part in ITU Telecom World 2016

Telebyte Inc. to showcase G.fast in real-world test environment

November 14, 2016: With Ovum forecasting ITU G.fast subscribers to reach 30 million by 2025, interoperability between chipsets (for CPE and Distribution Point Units) is a complex but absolutely vital component for the industry when deploying the technology at scale.
   
This is the message that the Broadband Forum will deliver at ITU Telecom World 2016. Speaking as part of a panel on “Gearing up for Ultra-High Speed Networks,” the Forum’s Marketing Director Mark Fishburn will discuss the critical requirements for delivering G.fast, alongside fellow panelists Dr. Reinhard Scholl, ITU’s Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, and David Bessonen, Senior G.fast Engineer at Telebyte, Inc.

The Broadband Forum will also exhibit at the show in conjunction with Forum member Telebyte, one of the leaders in G.fast Physical Layer testing. The company will provide a live demonstration of G.fast in a real-world test environment, including products from its ID-337 solution group – based on the Broadband Forum’s ID-337 G.fast Certification Test plan.

“As the industry continues to embrace G.fast, its success in broadband networks absolutely depends on service providers having a wide choice of equipment and this is where interoperability comes in,” said Fishburn. “The Broadband Forum’s collaboration with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory aims to address exactly this issue and a huge amount of work is going on at the moment to achieve true G.fast interoperability.”

The Broadband Forum’s work on G.fast builds upon the success of the ITU-T, which approved its ultrafast broadband standard, designed to deliver access speeds of up to 1Gbit/s over existing telephone wires, in conjunction with the Forum’s FTTdp architecture project.

“Consumer demand for high-speed networks, including gigabit access, is increasing all the time,” said Frank Van der Putten, Rapporteur of the ITU-T Q4/SG15 experts group on broadband access on metallic conductors. “It is key that gigabit access technologies are standardized and, more importantly, that the standards organizations facilitate interoperability testing from the start. That is why the work of ITU-T and the Broadband Forum is so vital as we enter the Gigabit Era.”

To find out more about the Broadband Forum’s work on G.fast, watch this video interview with its chairman Kevin Foster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScD7yO8lX48

ADG and InfoSaaS partner to improve the Cyber Security practices of organisations around the world

14 November 2016 UK headquartered Assured Digital Group (“ADG”) today announced it has formed a strategic commercial partnership with InfoSaaS Limited, the ground breaking information security risk management company, enabling government and industry customers to operate in a more secure and assured manner.

InfoSaaS (https://adg.infosaas.cloud/) addresses many mandatory requirements of the international information security standard ISO27001, including:

• A clear dashboard, providing management visibility of information security status and performance
• Classification, ownership and management of information and supporting assets
• Provision of an effective risk assessment and risk treatment methodology
• Automated production of a Statement of Applicability
• Process for identifying, recording and progressing security incidents
• A framework for documentation and records management
• Assisting in the definition of information security related roles and responsibilities

Founding CEO of ADG, digital entrepreneur Phil Dawson, stated that the InfoSaaS solution enables clients in both public and private sector to develop and improve their information security behaviours, practices and outcomes, in a world where such outcomes provide a clear competitive advantage against security laggards. He also noted that the ADG/InfoSaaS launch into Australia provides further proof of the UK’s global export opportunity in cyber security and cements its reputation for building trust in an increasingly digital world.

Dawson not only co-founded Skyscape Cloud Services (now named UKcloud), the fastest growing TechTrack100 company in the UK, which is the clear market leading provider of government cloud services but also ADG subsidiary, MDS Technologies (also on the TechTrack100 list), placing him at the forefront of understanding the opportunities that digital disruption creates for societal benefit.

Andy Beverley, CTO of InfoSaaS, commented:
"We take pride in delivering best-in-class ISO27001 information security management capabilities through our unique platform. As a result, it's important that our Company strengthens our position through establishing partnerships with trusted and reputable information security organisations such as ADG. The rationale behind our creation of InfoSaaS is to provide the automation and conversion of our proven manual methodology to a cost-effective cloud solution, helping organizations to achieve and retain their ISO27001 certifications, delivering cost savings, and reducing the time and resources required to operate an effective information security management system."

CEO of ADG Australia, Scott Wilkie, who has spent the last 12 months working on the new Australian Cyber Security Strategy stated: “the Prime Minister has noted that Australia’s opportunities in the digital future are limited by poor cyber security posture, awareness, skills and innovation. We believe that InfoSaaS will become the market leading IT risk management tool, enabling organisations to understand their current posture and pathway to a sustainable cyber maturity. Fundamentally, we are bringing the standardised security practices, used by Governments like Australia and the UK, into a usable and affordable format for all businesses – from startup to enterprise. This will be essential for national economic and social security given that there are not enough experienced cyber professionals to support the current business environment.”

New agreement is an expansion of Newtec’s activity in Asia and will enable further expansion into Chinese market
 
SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 14 November 2016. Newtec, a specialist in designing, developing and manufacturing equipment and technologies for satellite communications, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with the 54th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC54) to strengthen its position in China and across Asia.

Under the agreement – which was signed earlier last month at Newtec’s headquarters in Belgium, in the presence of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Belgian State Secretary for Science Policy Elke Sleurs – CETC54 will use Newtec technology in its newest VSAT systems in China.

In addition, Newtec will be able to source RF and antenna products, enabling the company to bring more elaborate ground segment solutions to the market.

“As a global player, our partnership with CETC54 is a logical expansion of the success we have already seen in Asia and will allow us to further expand, both in China and across Asia,” said Serge Van Herck on behalf of the Newtec Board of Directors. “The partnership is endorsed by our long-standing partner ESA, as well as the Belgian authorities, both of which have a long history of supporting industrial innovations which lead to the development of state-of-the-art products. We are confident that this partnership will do the same and enable us to provide our customers with even better Satcom solutions, wherever they are in the world.”

In addition to ESA and State Secretary Elke Sleurs, the contract signing was also witnessed and supported by the Counselor of the Chinese Embassy and the Executive Director of Flanders-China FCC.
 
Belgian State Secretary for Science Policy Elke Sleurs said: “I had the opportunity in June 2015 to participate in the State visit of the Belgian King to China. During this State visit, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the “Collaboration of Space Science, Technology and Applications” between our two countries. Today we have seen an example that answers the priorities put forward by our two countries. The signature of today's agreement between the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation and Newtec is another proof that the Belgian and ESA space policy and strategy do work.”

President of CETC54 Mr. Tu Tianjie said: “With demand for broadband continuing to grow, satellite communication has an important role to play both within and outside of China. Newtec has a track record of providing innovative and advanced technology which will enhance both our companies’ offering and enable our customers to take advantage of growing trends in the industry such as High Throughput Satellites.”